#remained

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#began #best #compose #ever #gave

I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#circuit #companion #growing #hollywood #i

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#conception #evil #form #free #good

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#again #beautiful #began #climb #dawn

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#any #felt #give #hope #i

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#does #know #man #often #only

I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#decided #each #friends #guess #huge

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray! ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#another #color #course #doing #eliminated

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absurd #admirable #agreed #barack #barack obama

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life. ↗

— Stijn Streuvels

#chimneys #close #fast #gave #ground